Month: February 2018

Acapela Group, Dutch charity Nederlandse Stichting voor het Gehandicapte Kind (NSGK) and AssistiveWare today launch the first Dutch text to speech children’s voices. They will benefit children who cannot speak and rely on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems. From today, the voices will be available to download exclusively in Proloquo2Go. The award-winning iOS app already gives a voice to over 175,000 children, teens and adults around the world.

Seascapes: Trito’s Match 3 Adventure is heading for worldwide launch on both the App Store and Google Play Store on 6th of March, 2018. Trito’s Adventure takes on the story of Trito, the son of Poseidon, on his adventure to restore and rebuild the underwater city that was torn apart by the evil sea witch. Players from Canada, Ireland, Indonesia, Singapore, Ukraine and United Kingdom are able to play early as the game has been in a successful soft launch.

Multimedia software provider, Joyoshare today announces Screen Recorder for Mac. Joyoshare Screen Recorder for Mac is a complete video capture tool which can record screen videos with audio simultaneously on Mac OS X. With just a few clicks, effortlessly record all screen activities, including desktop videos, audio, streaming music, games, webcams, online chats, video calls, lectures, and more on macOS. Then save recordings in most popular media formats, such as MP4, MOV, WMV, FLV, and more.

TheKeptPromise today announces Create Booklet 2, their new Mac application. Create Booklet allows anyone to create a booklet from almost any file from within almost any software. The app can place pages side by side re-sorted for booklet printing, no matter what printer is used. Create Booklet 2’s onboarding gets customers up to speed before they run into any surprises. It gives all the information they need to feel comfortable and gives them their first booklet.

Arizona based SV Software LLC today introduces Shopping Percent Calculator 1.0, the company’s new calculator app developed exclusively for iPhone devices. Shopping Percent Calculator offers a simple-to-use UI which allows shoppers to enter multiple items, adjust the savings and bonus savings amounts. The app then calculates the total dollar and savings amounts. Shopping Percent Calculator also includes a way to delete individual items so users can remove them if they are over budget.

Melbourne-based author and artist Rich McLean announces A Certain Beauty in Un-resolution… ART; 3.5 the update to his eBook, a product of the artist’s twenty-five-year journey of both traditional and digital art. The book is a visual portfolio of McLean’s visual language, documenting his development as a passionate illustrator and artist. It contains a rich collection of graphic, illustrative, and traditional images that will delight and challenge the art connoisseur and layperson alike.

Zevrix Solutions announces LinkOptimizer 5.2.5, a maintenance update to company’s workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. LinkOptimizer lets users automatically scale and crop images to their InDesign dimensions at specified target resolution, convert image formats, adjust colors and more. The new version addresses an issue in which alpha channels in PSD and TIFF files could be deleted during processing. The update also recognizes color profile in additional designated system locations.

Open Screen Ltd. today announced that Peter Arnell has accepted to become one of the judges on its Archisketch Drawing Contest. The company is accepting submissions until end of February for its contest, with more than $2,500 in prize monies to be won. Mr. Arnell has helped to instill design-led innovation in major corporations including Samsung, DKNY, PepsiCo, Unilever and many more. The competition is free to enter and it’s open to all existing and potential users of Archisketch.

Boston based FxFactory today releases XEffects Rips, a new set of Final Cut Pro X plugins. Developed by partner Idustrial Revolution, the plugins emulate the ripping of paper, separating the media into two halves with a photorealistic edge. The rip has onscreen controls for direction and rotation and the rip itself can be positioned using X & Y controls and rotated to any angle. Each plugin comes loaded with a choice of 10 different edges which can be adjusted for edge width, colour and offset.